Dali at the St. Regis

The St. Regis Hotel is in my opinion, the most opulent and grand hotel in New York. I love it. I also love that every fall and winter in the 1960s and 70s, Salvador Dali, his wife Gala and their pet ocelot (of course he had a dwarf leopard) lived at the St. Regis, where they’d have fabulous parties with New York’s arty best. The beautiful Beaux-Arts hotel was opened in 1904 by John Jacob Astor (who died 8 years later aboard the Titanic), and still feels like a step back in time, with every inch of every room jam packed with paintings, decorative moldings, glamor and glitz.

Even more applicable to my life (in addition to my love for Dali) is that in 1934, St. Regis bartender Fernand Petiot invented my favorite drink- the Bloody Mary. The name was deemed too saucy for their clientele, so it was adorably renamed The Red Snapper.

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Lori Zimmer

Founder of Art Nerd New York, Editor-in-Chief of Art Nerd City Guides, a freelance writer for Patrick McMullan Magazine, ArtFetch, Flavorpill, Inhabitat.com, and ArtSlant. Zimmer is also a curator and art consultant, having exhibited at ...